Unless anyone knows another reason for this impressive increase in comments? Seems to roughly coincide with Sync launching. If thats the case, just goes to show the importance of good third party apps.

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

EDIT: Looks like a confusingly labeled graph and I think this is total comments. I have no idea why that spike could exist though.

  • Subverb
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    932 years ago

    Not surprising. Sync has made Lemmy a near-seamless change for me.

    • amorpheus
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      72 years ago

      Yep. It’s like reddit never shat the bed and just spontaneously split into dozens of smaller sites.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Yeah, this.

      I tried a bunch of apps when I moved over to Lemmy. Some were really good however Sync just felt like home. Instantly back to normal from a user experience perspective.

    • @[email protected]
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      Sync was Reddit for me. So when Reddit decided to end all 3rd party apps, it was also the end of Reddit for me. Now with Sync for Lemmy it feels like I can pick off exactly where I left off and it feels great. Maybe even slightly better, because it feels like more people are interested in the comments you write and more of them interact with you.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Same, long time SyncPro user here (10 years), I stopped using reddit in June, I spent all my July on lemmy with PWA, Jerboa, Connect, etc, there was so much problems in the beginning with crash, network errors, etc. it was a jungle, dozens of new instances per day, etc. It is all stable now, I used Jerboa the most. First day Sync for Lemmy was out I installed it, it was like I never left the old site, same layout, colours, functionalities, gesture, etc. Sync for Lemmy is a saviour for sure. I didn’t want the subscribe, I bought the noads version the minute it was out.

      • @[email protected]
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        272 years ago

        Same except for Apollo on iOS.

        Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread

        • Username checks out
        • This deserves more upvotes
        • “This”
        • Came here to say this
        • Made an account just to say I agree
        • Lost it at ______
        • Sigh *unzips*
      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        This is my experience as well. I haven’t found lemmy to be difficult to navigate on my computer, but on my phone it was a bit messy - but with sync back everything is as it was for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        I just made an account to reply to this lol. I finally bit the bullet and started using Lemmy a few days ago, the community here is of course much smaller than reddit but I would describe the comments here as being like the 1 in 10 comments on reddit that actually made me want to keep using the site. You don’t see as many one word throw away pun comments here, which I’m not necessarily against but it gets very grating over time.

        I just downloaded relay yesterday, I was always a RIF user but using relay in “sure drawer” mode is a pretty similar experience. Everyone here seems very chill and nice

      • Subverb
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        112 years ago

        Agreed wholeheartedly.

        And like someone posted about we’re not constantly policing ourselves with /s because the folks here are adults. On reddit it had gotten so vitriolic I didn’t post often because someone was going to jump you for having a differing opinion or to express their faux outrage that you liked cheese on broccoli or whatever.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          Let’s just hope everyone stays understanding and able to keep minor differences unfought. I hope the option of defederation helps in that regard.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 years ago

          I watched that happen today, but they were arguing that Tim Martin of Wetherspoons fame is a nice guy.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    See, I know what you’re saying when you refer to it as a third party app, but this isn’t reddit.

    Sync is not a third party app because we don’t have any real parties to speak of. Sync is equal to Lemmy as any other client! That’s the beauty of decentralization!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      52 years ago

      You know I did actually question myself when I wrote that haha, but I went with it anyway.

      I mean the definition could still probably apply though perhaps under the logic that the developer has nothing to do with the development of Lemmy. He is just a third party to it. The lack of a first party doesn’t change that Sync is a third party, maybe…

      Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things.

  • force1
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    532 years ago

    Sync definitely made me a regular on Lemmy

  • @[email protected]
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    512 years ago

    I still don’t know how this all works, but I’ll just keep blindly using it because I like Sync, and Laurence deserves our support.

    • OpenSourceDeezNuts
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      292 years ago

      You’ll catch on. It’s just like using Reddit, except each subreddit includes a web address in the name. Other than that, it’s mostly the same.

  • @[email protected]
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    702 years ago

    Its almost like having good third party apps can benefit a community! Who would have ever seen this coming! I sure didnt!

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    I’m one of them. Never used lemmy because none of the available apps werent as sleek, stable, and functional as the reddit apps of old. But now sync is a great app so I use Lemmy a lot more.

  • @[email protected]
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    342 years ago

    it’s people arguing about whether or not they use sync

    … honestly tho I wouldn’t be surprised, I’m using it a lot more now 🤷‍♂️

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      It wasn’t because of Sync. The increase happened before Sync for Lemmy was even available. Notice how it jumped up and then didn’t rise again? Probably a dodgy instance federated.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    What’s the best iOS client until someone can talk Christian into fixing Apollo for Lemmy?

  • @[email protected]
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    Yup, created my account a month ago but found it a hassle to navigate on mobile, and actively started commenting the moment sync dropped

  • sQuirrel
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    202 years ago

    I would love to have the designer of RIF put their talents back in to making something that works out here free from the matrix.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      They are working on an app for Tildes, another forum kind of website. It’s called Three Cheers for Tildes! Currently in alpha on android, iOS currently under development.

    • finally debunked
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      22 years ago

      To put it bluntly, RIF is absolute garbage. The design is completely outdated and feels like a step backward from where we were even a few years ago

  • @[email protected]
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    722 years ago

    Yeah, but 2 million of those comments where “Yay, Sync!” and the other 2 million were “REEE, Sync!”